Source: 18th Battalion Association Memorial Booklet and Awards.
Family Search: When Private Joseph Gilmore was born on 16 November 1888, in Dixie, Mississauga, Peel, Ontario, Canada, his father, Alfred Gilmore, was 42 and his mother, Annie Mullen, was 38. He married Edna Bell Stewart on 26 February 1919, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Dixie, Pickering, Ontario, Ontario, Canada in 1926 and Toronto Township, Peel, Ontario, Canada in 1931. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 28, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 26 December 1976, in Mississauga, Peel, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 88, and was buried in Dixie Union Chapel and Cemetery, Mississauga, Peel, Ontario, Canada.
Military Medal and Bar
This man enlisted in the CEF with the 126th Overseas Battalion at Toronto, Ontario on 6 January 1916. He was a farmer living at 124 West Lodge Avenue.
He arrived in England on 24 August 1916 and proceeded to Bramshott Camp. He was transferred to the 116th Reserve Battalion and then transferred to the 18th Battalion for active service on 28 November 1916. He joined the battalion “in the field” on 3 December 1916.
He was awarded the Military Medal for “Bravery in the Field” on 2 November 1917.
Private Gilmore was granted a 14-day leave to England effective 11 December 1917.
He was awarded a Bar to his Military Medal on 13 May 1918.
Three months later, on 26 August 1918, he was wounded, suffering a GSW to the right leg and was invalided to England, crossing the Channel aboard the HS Stad Antwerpen.
Recovered, he was assigned to the HMT Aquitania and sailed for Halifax from Liverpool on 18 January 1919 and arrived on 24 January 1919.
He was discharged due to demobilization on 19 February 1919 at Toronto.
His service record shows him residing in Dixie, Ontario, in 1926.
Military Medal
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in action. After the attack on the morning of August 15th 1917, when our objective had been gained, Pte. GILMORE volunteered to take a message to a Platoon in the front line. This undertaking was a difficult one as he was not certain of the position and the trip had to be made in daylight and in plain view of the enemy's snipers. He successfully reached his destination and brought back valuable information,working all the time under heavy machine gun and rifle fire.He continu-ally volunteered for dangerous work and on one occasion carried a severely wounded man overland to the support line. (A.F.W. 3121 15-8-17)
OBIT
GILMORE, Joseph—At Mississauga Hospital on Sunday, December 26, 1976, Joseph Gilmore, late of 61 Lakeshore Rd. E., Port Credit, beloved husband of Edna Belle Stewart and dear father of Norma, (Mrs. V. R. Hill), Ottalie (Mrs. S. Carlson) of Mississauga and Douglas of Long Branch. Also survived by seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Mr. Gilmore is resting at the funeral home of Skinner & Middlebrook Ltd., 128 Lakeshore Rd. E., Port Credit. Service in the chapel, Wednesday at 1.30 p.m. Interment St. John’s Cemetery.
Toronto Star 28 December 1976. Page 22.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 